INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR YOUNG CONDUCTORS
51st Competition / selected candidates
The winner of the 51st Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors is Kazuki YAMADA.
He also won the Public Price.
The Grand Prize is endowed with 12 000 € and possible engagements by the following orchestras:
- BBC symphony orchestra (Royaume-Uni)
- Orchestre de Besançon Franche-Comté
- Orchestre national d'Ile de France
- Orchestre national de Bordeaux Aquitaine dans le cadre des Estivales de Musique au Coeur du Médoc
- Orchestre national de Lorraine
- Orchestre de Bretagne
- Orchestre Lamoureux
- Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse
- Ensemble orchestral contemporain
- L'Ensemble de Basse-Normandie
- Dresdner Philharmonie (Allemagne)
- Orchestra of opera north (Royaume-Uni)
- Wiener KammerOrchester (Autriche)
- Prague symphony orchestra (République Tchèque)
- Istanbul state symphony orchestra (Turquie)
- Orquesta filarmónica de la ciudad de México (Mexique)
- National symphony orchestra (Taiwan)
We thank orchestras for their collaboration.
Henry SHIN won the Internet Audience vote.
Arte will give him a financial support (10 000 euros) for the record of an upcoming concert (vote on http://liveweb.arte.tv/).
Presentation of the competition
The winner of the 50th Besançon International Competition for Young Conductors is Darrell Ang.
Download the complete list of laureates here
Established in 1951 within the Besançon International Music Festival, the International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors soon became the most prestigious event of the kind. It is one of the great competition in France supported by the French Ministry of Culture. It has been held every year until 1992, and then every 2 years.
The Conducting Competition is organized thanks to:
- the French Ministry of Culture
- the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs / CulturesFrance
- the City of Besançon
- the Conseil regional de Franche-Comté
- the Departement du Doubs
- the Chinese Musicians’ Association
- the Central Conservatory of Beijing
- the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Music *
- the Tokyo Geijutsu Daigaku
- the Hochschule fuer musik Hanns Eisler
Alexander GIBSON, Sergiu COMISSIONA, Gerd ALBRECHT, Seiji OZAWA, Michel PLASSON, Zdenek MACAL, Jiri KOUT, Jesus LOPEZ COBOS, Hubert SOUDANT, Sylvain CAMBRELING or Yutaka SADO are some of the most prestigious winners of this Conducting Competition.
* In collaboration with the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Music and the programme of research in orchestral conducting managed by professor Paolo Bellomia, supported by the Fonds canadien pour l'innovation and the Fonds de recherche sur la société et la culture (Quebec).